Movable vehicle seat
AssigneeBertrand Faure Automobile "BFA"
InventorBernard Boisset
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Abstract
A movable seat for a vehicle, the seat being of the type including an unlockable fixing mechanism for connecting its seat structure to the floor of the vehicle. The mechanism includes a latch 8 having a shoulder 9 and mounted to move relative to the structure 2, the latch being suitable for penetrating in an opening 3 in the floor 1. Under the control of control mechanism, the latch 8 can take up either an unlocking position in which it is capable of penetrating into the opening 3 or of escaping therefrom, or else a locking position after it has penetrated into the opening, in which locking position the shoulder 9 is in locking engagement beneath an edge 3' of the opening 3.
Claims11
A combination of a vehicle having a floor, a seat with a seat structure and a fixing system for fixing the seat to the floor, said combination comprising:
- an opening having an edge in the floor of the vehicle;
- a fixing mechanism attached to the set structure which fixes the seat structure to the floor, said fixing mechanism including
- a latch having a distal portion provided with a shoulder which said distal portion penetrates said opening,
- a mounting means for mounting said latch for rotation relative to the set structure,
- a control means for selectively moving the distal portion of said latch in said opening between (a) an unlocking position where said shoulder is free to penetrate into or escape from said opening and (b) a locking position where, after penetration of said distal portion of said latch into said opening, said shoulder is underneath and in locking engagement with said edge of said opening, and
- a positioning and guide plate attached to the seat structure along side of which said latch is rotatably mounted, said plate including a distal projection which penetrates said opening when said distal portion of said latch penetrates said opening and an enlarged region on opposite sides of said distal projection which engages the flow when the projection penetrates said opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.